How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Elodie lowered her gaze in thought for a moment. "You don't need to worry. I'll find

a way to handle this. There are several people assisting me at work, and they'll all be questioned as well. Maybe something just went wrong somewhere along the line."

"Let's wait and see," Charlie said. "I'll reach out to Klein again and see if there's anything to clarify. Don't be afraid." He didn't know the details, but he trusted that Elodie wouldn't make a mistake.

Elodie nodded in agreement.

There were quite a few people on the team.

But the person who handled most of the important tasks with her was Lily Lockwood.

Everything Lily submitted, Elodie reviewed first.

Which meant the problem had to have occurred right before submission.

As for Lily, she was clearly less of a suspect. She had nothing to gain by tampering with the data, and Elodie had a personal relationship with Jarrod—a marriage in name, if not in spirit.

Besides, Elodie didn't believe Lily bore her any deep grudge that would make her risk everything to frame her.

After all, if Lily got caught, she'd lose all the hard-won opportunities she'd fought for.

When the call ended, Alexander finally turned to her. "So, what's your take on all this?"

At the moment, with Elodie under investigation, her work with Project 719 would be put on hold. She'd have to step away from the facility to ensure an impartial review of the situation.

Once she was suspended and off-site, she wouldn't have a chance to prove her innocence. She'd be left sitting on her hands, just waiting.

lot of ideas, but nothing I can be sure of yet." Alexander considered this. "You think Jarrod has anything to do with it? Maybe the batch of materials he sent you for testing

know the

her and Jarrod's team. But the fact remained: Elodie had gotten caught up in a

internal protocols were strict; mistakes like this almost never slipped through. By all reasonable analysis, if there was a variable, it was likely on Jarrod's

Elodie and

the child, Alexander thought. A man like

had a huge fight over this, and it hadn't

meant Jarrod cared about

Elodie for

he really

have sounded

had endured over the years, Alexander couldn't bring himself to fully trust Jarrod, not as her

her head almost immediately. "No. All the data I tested

happened right before

She understood Jarrod.

he

direct brutal, even-but, net

He didn't need to go to

would be that bold?" Alexander

added, "If it

he had to admit, Elodie was handling it better than most would.

of the time, he admired her for

much else to analyze.

The car started up.

glanced out the